Miranda

Miranda is a 1948 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the play of the same name the film is based on. Denis Waldock provided additional dialogue. A light comedy, the film is about a beautiful and playful mermaid played by Glynis Johns and her effect on Griffith Jones. Googie Withers and Margaret Rutherford are also featured in the film. Johns and Rutherford reprised their roles in the 1954 s... more

Miranda is a 1948 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the play of the same name the film is based on. Denis Waldock provided additional dialogue. A light comedy, the film is about a beautiful and playful mermaid played by Glynis Johns and her effect on Griffith Jones. Googie Withers and Margaret Rutherford are also featured in the film. Johns and Rutherford reprised their roles in the 1954 sequel, Mad About Men. With his wife uninterested in fishing, Dr. Paul Martin (Griffith Jones) goes on a holiday on the Cornwall coast alone. There he snags Miranda (Glynis Johns), a real mermaid, and is pulled into the water. She keeps him prisoner in her underwater cavern and only lets him go after he agrees to show her London. He disguises her as an invalid patient in a wheelchair and takes her to his home for a month-long stay. Martin’s wife Clare (Googie Withers) reluctantly agrees to the arrangement, but gets him to hire someone to look... less